are you really going to make me believe that this naruto sincerely did not know the difference between love for humans and ramen, and that he psyched himself into having a crush for years because of a misunderstanding?
and that’s not even getting into how clearly he saw sasuke’s emotions as not directed towards him, but somewhere else - and was the only person to correctly do so - as a literal c h i l d?
naruto is a romantic at heart look at how excited he is about his parents’ lovestory 🥺🥺🥺